NOTE: The below Blu-ray captures were taken directly from the Blu-ray disc.

ADDITION: Severin Blu-ray (November 2019): Severin have transferred the 1961 Euro-horror Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory to Blu-ray. in the "original uncut Italian version". It is described as from a "newly scanned in 2k from archival elements recently discovered in a Rome lab vault". The image is imperfect and has plenty of issues - many, I suspect, related to the production itself. There are frame-specific marks, and plenty of speckles but nothing that makes it unwatchable. 

On their Blu-ray, Severin use a DTS-HD Master 2.0 channel mono track (16-bit) in the original Italian or English DUB languages. It is another advancement in the film's audio and score by Armando Trovajoli (Hercules in the Haunted World, Two Women, The Valachi Papers, A Special Day, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Marriage Italian Style, La Vista.) Severin offer optional English subtitles for both the Italian translation and for the English DUB (see samples below) on their Region 'A' Blu-ray.

There is an audio commentary with actor Curt Lowens (who played director 'Director Swift' in "Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory". It is moderated by David Del Valle who poses questions regarding his career and the best industry people that he worked with including Paolo Heusch, censorship, The Edgar Wallace influence, how it's really not a "Dormitory" but rather a "Reformatory" and other details. It's not bad although not particularly probing or doing deep analysis (although to be fair the film doesn't warrant it either and I thought Del Valle carried it off well.) Severin add a 10-minute video piece entitled "Bad Moon Rising" which is a frank interview with screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi (My Name Is Nobody, Torso, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh) in Italian with English subtitles. There are Italian and US trailers as well as the brief US titled opening crediting The Ghoul in School written by Marilyn Stewart, Frank Owens and sung by Adam Keefe.

Well... I don't know - I liked Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory. Barbara Lass (Roman Polanski's first wife) certainly has a sexy Barbara Steele-thing going on. Yes, it's hokey as heck and the exploitation, although tempered, is obvious. I loved the black and white cinematography, by Renato Del Frate (as George Patrick), suiting a superior horror with plenty of forest shadows and scientist basements. It's an odd-ball 'Werewolf' flic but maybe that's what I liked about it. It's not Euro-trash and has some respectable production values. Yes, I recommend this Blu-ray with the commentary and interview. You may also be very pleasantly surprised.

Gary Tooze